I wanted to share an really nice video of Emily Badillo using Cold Call. It’s a crisp 30 second case study in how to use Cold Call to set expectations high while remaining positive, genuine and inclusive. We’re watching her with her 4th grade reading group and there are two Cold Calls. EA.ColdCall.GR4.Badillo.’Interesting new…
Jen Rugani is the newest member of Team TLAC. She’s a former Principal at Leadership Prep Canarsie Elementary in Brooklyn and a former TLAC teaching fellow. As a teacher and school leader she felt pretty strongly about what the start to a good school year looked like so a recent video really caght her eye….
Some of my readers will remember Michael Laser. He wrote a guest blog here a few years ago about the issue of chronically poor student writing at the college level. He’s been working on a system to develop and improve his students’ writing and–music to our ears–he’s focused on the foundational skill of sentence craft. He…
Recently I stumbled across this article thanks to Carl Hendricks’ recommendation. It describes the work of Maryanne Wolf, who set out to map some of the results of what is the elephant in the room for all of us who teach reading. That the book is losing in the battle for relevance with the phone…
Setting yourself up to practice well. This week we are making a set of 24 online self-study modules aligned to Teach Like a Champion techniques available to educators everywhere. We think these modules can help teachers learn and develop their teaching skill and therefore ensure greater student success and achievement—and we think they can help teachers…